Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

Increasing rate of overall consumption and population has been applying weight on available natural resources. Environmental sustainability is the association with the earth so as to dodge consumption of natural resources for ideal long-term environmental quality. While India’s ecological footprint is path underneath that of industrialized and developed countries, its present consumption rates do surpass its bio capacity. At current consumption levels, Indians would require two nations of its size to sustain itself. The Ecological Footprint is an environmental effect model broadly used in ecological economics. Per capita subnational Ecological Footprints are a powerful measure of ecological capacity appropriation by household consumers. Per capita Footprints are very much reported at the national level however there is a lack in information about per capita Footprints at the state level, or examinations of per capita Footprints between states inside a country. In this paper, I propose to measure Ecological Footprints inside India using secondary data from different government sources to examine environmental burden at state level. I have made a clearer picture about how contrasts in consumption pattern over socioeconomic region prompts environmental burden associated with consumption. Findings demonstrate that the per capita Ecological Footprint for India is distinctive relying upon what demographic characteristics a consumer possesses. It is important for policy makers in the India to take into account differences in environmental impact between demographics in order to efficiently and effectively consider the different causes of consumption heterogeneity and to be able to achieve the goal of reducing our environmental impact.